Erich Klostermann

Erich Klostermann (14 February 1870 – 18 September 1963) was a German scholar of the New Testament, patristics, and classical philology.

His father was the Protestant theologian and Old Testament scholar August Klostermann, a professor at Kiel University.

Erich also studied at Kiel, and he received his doctorate in 1892 from the Department of Philology with a dissertation on the Book of Ecclesiastes (De libri Coheleth versione Alexandrina).

After his doctorate he met with Adolf von Harnack, the most distinguished scholar of patristics of the era, who was able to persuade him to join the Church Fathers Commission of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.

These texts were in the series Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftsteller [de] (The Greek Christian Writers of the First Three Centuries).

[3] In 1928, he once again received a full professorship position, this time at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale).

After the fall of the Nazi government and subsequent de-Nazification efforts in 1945 removing various compromised staff members, Klostermann was reactivated from retirement to teach again.

Erich Klostermann died in 1963, and was buried in the St. Laurentius zu Halle [de] Protestant cemetery.